Maggie's Farm

. . . This is the first case of its kind since the International Court of Justice affirmed that governments have a legal duty to prevent climate harm

. . . Ten Australians filed a case with the United Nations Human Rights Committee arguing the Australian government is violating their human rights by failing to limit coal and gas exports — by far Australia’s largest contribution to climate change.

. . .The Aussie government has been practicing coal hypocrisy for a long time, penalising the use of coal in Australia through regulations like the Carbon Safeguard Mechanism, while exporting vast amounts of coal and gas to Asia. Pretending to practice green virtue at home, while ignoring that other nations are burning the vast quantities of fossil fuel which Australia exports.

The Aussie government also expressed enthusiastic support for recent UN climate rulings, including the ruling which appears to be the basis of this new international court case.

. . . If the case fails, the UN will lose all remaining credibility on green issues, because there is no doubt Australia is guilty as sin, in the sense that Australia is a major fossil fuel exporter.

If the claimants win, the radical left wing green Australian government will be forced to choose between disavowing a UN resolution they themselves noisily backed, in my opinion to embarrass President Trump, or shutting down two of our major exports, which would trigger a savage national economic contraction, including mass layoffs of government workers.